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jimmyjump
jimmyjump

Reputation: 149

Cannot search for tweets using clojure twitter api twttr

Using twttr and other Clojure twitter api libraries I have no issues with sending tweets or updates but I am unable to search or filter tweets for keywords.

I put the following command into the repl:

(ns twitter-search.core
    (:require [twttr.api :as api ]
                    [twttr.auth :refer [env->UserCredentials]]))

I then input the credentials, as following:

(def app-consumer-key "my key from dev.twitter " )

And the same for app-consumer-secret access and secret token; all seems fine there as when I type in repl app-consumer-key it returns the key all fine.

Then for credentials I do :

(def creds (env->UserCredentials))

I get users show to work fine by writing a small function:

(defn show-user [handle]
    (api/users-show creds :params {:screen_name handle}))

Then when I run (show-user "jack" ) in the repl I get all the json data one would expect so that is all fine and good.

The problem I am having is searching for tweets. When I put the following into the repl:

(api/search-tweets creds :params {:q "football"})

It does nothing, other than go from the current namespace 

twitter-search.core=>

To 

#_=>

If you could point out where I'm going wrong or send an example of how to search tweets containing certain words I would be most grateful.

I even did quite long tail searches and posted the same term from another twitter account to see if I could prompt the program to detect the tweet but nothing happened.

(ns twitter-search.core
    (:require [twttr.api :as api ]
                    [twttr.auth :refer [env->UserCredentials]]))


(def app-consumer-key "my key from dev.twitter " )

(def creds (env->UserCredentials))

(defn show-user [handle]
    (api/users-show creds :params {:screen_name handle}))



;; The problem I am having is searching for tweets. 
;; When I put the following into the repl:

(api/search-tweets creds :params {:q "football"})

;; It does nothing, other than go from the current namespace 

twitter-search.core=>

;; To 

#_=>

I just want to be able to know how to use the twttr clojure library to filter out tweets based of certain keywords within their tweets. I know this probably seems a silly question, however, I am new to Clojure, I have not fouind a working example anywhere and have tried many times to get it to work.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 79

Answers (1)

jimmyjump
jimmyjump

Reputation: 149

I feel very silly :-(

I was able to fix it, not sure what was causing the problem; I usually try fixing the problem several times and I usually answer it myself before posting here.

Anyway the following function returned what I was looking for:

(defn keyword-return [keyword]
  (api/search-tweets creds :params {:q keyword}))

Upvotes: 2

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